1 Chronicles 6:46

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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אַמְצִ֥י

ʼAmtsîy

H557

“Amzi”

Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H553

TWOT: None

Amzi = "my strength" - a Levite - the ancestor of a returned exile in the priestly line

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

6: words
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אַמְצִ֥י Amzi H557 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

אַמְצִ֥י Amzi H557

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אַמְצִ֥י Amzi H557 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Nehemiah 11:12

Grammatical profile

6 nouns

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בֶּן son H1121 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 12 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 6:46 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בֶּן אַמְצִ֥י בֶן בָּנִ֖י בֶּן שָֽׁמֶר

the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 6:46 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ υἱός κααθ ὁ κατάλοιπος ἐκ ὁ πατριά ἐκ ὁ φυλή ἐκ ὁ ἥμισυς φυλή μανασσή κλῆρος πόλις δέκα

the son of Amessias, the son of Bani, the son of Semer,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:46 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And to the sons of Kehath who remained for the priests came from Kehath, and they already said what they gave to the priests, the sons of Kehath.

And to the sons of Kehath who remained from the family of the tribe of Levi.

from half the tribe of Manasseh, by lot ten cities And to half the tribe of Manasseh, the lot fell to give the sons of Kehath, the Levites, ten cities.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼAmtsîy (“Amzi”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Amzi” (ʼAmtsîy) contribute to the verse as a whole?
This is the first place “Amzi” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
How does Nehemiah 11:12, which shares the word «Amzi», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?

Things to notice

1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 3× in this single verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.